Fashion designer Kate Spade has been found dead at her New York apartment. Reports suggest she took her own life.
The BBC reports the 55-year-old co-founder of handbag brand Kate Spade was found by her housekeeper on Tuesday morning at 10.20 am East Coast time in her Park Avenue home. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Kate Spade started the brand that would become world famous back in 1993 with her partner Andy Spade, who she married in 1994. Starting out just making handbags, the couple’s label soon expanded into clothing and jewellery. Kate sold her company back in 2007, saying she wanted to spend time raising her daughter.
But just two years ago she made a resurgence back into the world of fashion, launching a new brand called Frances Valentine, named after her daughter and her grandfather.
Our thoughts are with Kate’s family.
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